Cuban Media: Intellectuals in 30 countries demand an end to the blockade on Cuba

Granma Internacional, Cuba ^ | 9/18/08 | Government of Cuba

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

HAVANA, September 17 —In less than 24 hours more than 1,000 intellectuals from Latin America, the United States, Europe and Africa have signed an appeal circulated by their Cuban colleagues, expressing solidarity and demanding an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

The message, which is circulating on the Internet, notes that Cuba was dramatically impacted by two powerful hurricanes recently, and that its people are demanding an immediate halt to the odious blockade that has been maintained against Cuba by successive U.S. administrations for almost 50 years.

The appeal to the world from a large group of Cuban artists and intellectuals has become a website, www.concubahoy.cult.cu, and anyone in the world can access it.

Artists from a total of 30 countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Italy, France, Greece, Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and other nations have signed the appeal to date, and they include philosophers, actors, novelists, journalists and jurists.

"We are appealing to the sensitivity of intellectuals and artists all over the world to demand an immediate end of the criminal U.S. blockade and to promote actions of solidarity and help for Cuba," the appeal says.

What the island is asking for is a human right, not charity, said outstanding dancer Alicia Alonso, director of the National Ballet of Cuba, referring to the appeal.

Translated by Granma International

[yldstrk]

Idiots in 30 countries........

[softwarecreator]

Well, 300,000,000 intellectuals around the world think that it should stay just the way it is.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Ping

[wny]

Blockade? Didn’t that end in 1962?

[GAB-1955]

It’s not a blockade. Refusing to sell to a country is not a blockade; it’s an embargo.

[MaxMax]

philosophers, actors, novelists, journalists and jurists. OH-MY

[utherdoul]

Hey I still can’t legally get a cuban! Those cigars (not that I’ve had them ever) are reason enough to end the blockade. Just make Cuba a state.

[Texas Eagle]

Yo, Artists, why don't you help Cuber?

Oh, that's right. Because nobody wants to buy your crap.

[Veto!]

Proving once again that intellectuals are morons. We’ve never had a Blockade of Cuba. It’s an embargo, idiots.

[clee1]

We have and “embargo”; not a “blockade”.

We won’t trade with them, but we aren’t preventing anyone else from doing so.

Just goes to show that most “intellectuals” don’t have the sense to pour pi$$ out of a boot.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Artists from a total of 30 countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Italy, France, Greece, Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and other nations have signed the appeal to date, and they include philosophers, actors, novelists, journalists and jurists.

I wonder if Michael Moore, Sean Penn and the majority of communist artist "intellectuals" in Hollywood have signed this declaration?

WHERE'S THAT PIC OF THE "CHE-OBAMA" FLAG?

[webschooner]

Just make Cuba a state.

It already is ... it's a poor Communist state with an infrastructure and buildings that are crumbling. You think the recent goobermint bailouts were expensive? The cost to rebuild Cuber would make those bailouts look like chump change.

Thanks but no tanks to spending my tax dollars to rebuild that dump.

[crazyhorse691]

Dancers are intellectuals?

[ETL]

Does that include these three "intellectuals" (Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Barack Obama)?

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

___________________________________________________________

From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' He said, 'I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

[softwarecreator]

I wonder if Michael Moore, Sean Penn and the majority of communist artist "intellectuals" in Hollywood have signed this declaration

These are probably the American domestic 'intellectuals' they are counting.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

The problem is, is that there are just as many Chamber of Commerce/Collective of Communists types....Free Trade w Comme China types....Business Socialist types....and Liberal Globalist types who want the embargo on Cuba to end, too...

Its not just the libertines...but also many “faux” conservatives want to do business w Castro.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

There is no blockade on Cuba. What a bunch of dolts.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> HAVANA, September 17 —In less than 24 hours more than 1,000 pointy-headed intellectuals from Latin America, the United States, Europe and Africa have signed an appeal circulated by their Cuban colleaguesmasters and role models, expressing solidarity and demanding an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

There. Fixed it. Truth in Advertizing.

[mabelkitty]

Thankfully, intellectuals have no power and mostly spend their time writing position papers and hoping to get noticed.